Studies You Should Know: Personality Testing In a Selection Context
Klehe, U. C., Kleinmann, M., Hartstein, T., Melchers, K. G., König, C. J., Heslin, P. A., & Lievens, F. (2012). Responding to personality tests in a selection context: The role of the ability to identify criteria and the ideal-employee factor. Human Performance, 25(4), 273-302. Abstract Personality assessments are often distorted
Studies You Should Know: Leveraging 360-Feedback
Nowack, K. M., & Mashihi, S. (2012). Evidence-based answers to 15 questions about leveraging 360-degree feedback. Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research, 64(3), 157. Abstract Despite the popularity of 360-degree feedback, meta-analytic findings suggest that these interventions can lead to a significant change in behavior but the effect sizes are
Lessons from Being An Entrepreneur
For my last blog in this series, I have chosen to write about my lessons from being an entrepreneur. For most of my working life, I have either started businesses or worked for myself. In many ways, everyone works for themselves, trading their time for money. The difference with an
Lessons Learnt from Work: Psychology
For as long as I have thought seriously about a career, I thought of being a psychologist. I have always been interested in understanding the brain and behaviour. My curiosity has led me down many spiritual, philosophical and scientific roads, searching for what it means to be human. However, the
Lessons Learnt from Work: Housing
I have been an active property investor since 2002. However, my love of property started much earlier than this; a passion evident in the story of my family home. The first house I brought was developed and built by my grandfather, Alfred Englert, who built the house for his wife,
Lessons Learnt from Work: Academia
My honours year was a turning point for how I thought about the prospects of being an academic. Up until that point in my life, my studies were simply a means to an end. I had various careers I was considering pursuing, and my time at university was the stepping
Lessons I’ve Learnt in Work: Part-Time Work
To finish this series of lessons I have learnt, I want to turn to my working life. I have worked from an early age and have broken my working life into three distinct phases. The first phase, which I will go into now, is part-time work. Working part-time, be it
Studies You Should Know: Publish Less and Read More
Phaf, R. H. (2020). Publish less, read more. Theory & Psychology, 30(2), 263-285. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354319898250 Abstract A publication deluge has impeded rather than advanced theory in experimental psychology. Many researchers rely more on null-hypothesis significance testing than literature studies to determine whether results are worthwhile. Four problematic publication practices are symptomatic
Studies You Should Know: Understanding Personality
Quirin, M., Robinson, M. D., Rauthmann, J. F., Kuhl, J., Read, S. J., Tops, M., & DeYoung, C. G. (2020). The dynamics of personality approach (DPA): 20 tenets for uncovering the causal mechanisms of personality. European Journal of Personality, 34(6), 947-968. https://doi.org/10.1002/per.2295 Abstract Over the last few decades, most personality
Studies You Should Know: Growth Mindset
In the discipline of Industrial and Organisational Psychology, there is a revolution going on. Critiques of old studies are as part of the replication crisis are becoming common. There are the callouts of pop-psychology often deliberately oversimplifying studies to make sensationalist headlines. New studies are being produced that address the